Mainstreaming Juneteenth is kind of a perfect example of everything the woke do in their culture war, because it simultaneously (1) is the kind of thing they can make others feel like they have to participate in (and wokies can scream at them if they don’t) while also (2) being very fraught with the likelihood that the non-wokies will “do it wrong” or “get it wrong,” (and in that case wokies can scream at them for THAT). I don’t have a single problem with the holiday, groups can decide what’s important to them and when/how to celebrate, but I think what I just described is an obvious phenomenon that pervades every last bit of wokeness and the ways by which they seek to make cultural gains.
Add to it, what does this dopey-ass writer expect? His movement constantly demands that other people and organizations “see” them, celebrate them, just stfu and include them. Making the holiday mainstream is the kind of thing they wanted. Now they got it and they don’t want it anymore? I don’t really believe that (I think the dopey-ass writer is just executing the second technique I mentioned above) but if they don’t like, what happens if it gets taken away again? I bet then this dopey-ass writer would put out an article saying how awesome Juneteenth was when it was just him and the fam, that it became lame when they desegregated it, but that now giving it back to just the fam is like totally the worst thing ever. Can’t win with these cocksuckers, so people should just stop playing.
Don't forget it's constructed out of a complete fiction.
I seriously doubt Juneteenth was celebrated continuously in Galveston, TX. I want photographic evidence of the 1927 Juneteenth celebration in Galveston. Funny thing is, I know there isn't one from Detroit in 2009. Wasn't one in Harlem in 1962, either.
It seems like it doesn't even occur in the general consciousness prior to 2015. It's a complete and total gaslighting.
The only reason Juneteenth became a thing was because Saint Floyd died in May, and it was the soonest "black" holiday to beat people over the head with the following month. It would make 100x more sense to have a federal holiday for the Emancipation Proclamation, but that would be in September so it was too far away. Instead we got a holiday with possibly the stupidest, least descriptive name ever, and the holiday is for slaves being freed in one state.
The Emancipation Proclamation was announced in September, but it went into effect January 1st.
And not one state. One city, and not just any kind of freed, but freed under order of military occupation (which in and of itself was probably still some kind of illegal). The freeing of any slave in the US by military fiat was illegal until the 13th Amendment. Even the Emancipation Proclamation was illegal and unconstitutional. The 13th Amendment was basically designed to back-rationalize all the shit the army had been doing since 1861 (which is when they started "freeing" slaves, by taking them as "contraband").
Mainstreaming Juneteenth is kind of a perfect example of everything the woke do in their culture war, because it simultaneously (1) is the kind of thing they can make others feel like they have to participate in (and wokies can scream at them if they don’t) while also (2) being very fraught with the likelihood that the non-wokies will “do it wrong” or “get it wrong,” (and in that case wokies can scream at them for THAT). I don’t have a single problem with the holiday, groups can decide what’s important to them and when/how to celebrate, but I think what I just described is an obvious phenomenon that pervades every last bit of wokeness and the ways by which they seek to make cultural gains.
Add to it, what does this dopey-ass writer expect? His movement constantly demands that other people and organizations “see” them, celebrate them, just stfu and include them. Making the holiday mainstream is the kind of thing they wanted. Now they got it and they don’t want it anymore? I don’t really believe that (I think the dopey-ass writer is just executing the second technique I mentioned above) but if they don’t like, what happens if it gets taken away again? I bet then this dopey-ass writer would put out an article saying how awesome Juneteenth was when it was just him and the fam, that it became lame when they desegregated it, but that now giving it back to just the fam is like totally the worst thing ever. Can’t win with these cocksuckers, so people should just stop playing.
Don't forget it's constructed out of a complete fiction.
I seriously doubt Juneteenth was celebrated continuously in Galveston, TX. I want photographic evidence of the 1927 Juneteenth celebration in Galveston. Funny thing is, I know there isn't one from Detroit in 2009. Wasn't one in Harlem in 1962, either.
It seems like it doesn't even occur in the general consciousness prior to 2015. It's a complete and total gaslighting.
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Juneteenth%2CZoot+Suit%2C%2CFrankenstein&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=en-2019&smoothing=3
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=juneteenth
The only reason Juneteenth became a thing was because Saint Floyd died in May, and it was the soonest "black" holiday to beat people over the head with the following month. It would make 100x more sense to have a federal holiday for the Emancipation Proclamation, but that would be in September so it was too far away. Instead we got a holiday with possibly the stupidest, least descriptive name ever, and the holiday is for slaves being freed in one state.
The Emancipation Proclamation was announced in September, but it went into effect January 1st.
And not one state. One city, and not just any kind of freed, but freed under order of military occupation (which in and of itself was probably still some kind of illegal). The freeing of any slave in the US by military fiat was illegal until the 13th Amendment. Even the Emancipation Proclamation was illegal and unconstitutional. The 13th Amendment was basically designed to back-rationalize all the shit the army had been doing since 1861 (which is when they started "freeing" slaves, by taking them as "contraband").